Your Employment Settlement Service (YESS)

YESS are an experienced team of lawyers offering affordable advice to employees and employers who want to resolve problems at work. We give expert, realistic and practical legal advice on all employment issues with the sole aim of resolving the dispute. We never litigate. We focus on our client’s aims and use constructive dialogue to enable early resolution and keep stress and legal costs to a minimum.

Grants

Your Employment Settlement Service (YESS)

YESS-online is a new initiative building on YESS’ experience in providing legal advice about how to resolve workplace disputes. It involves:

establishing an interactive guided pathway website for employees and employers,

providing a one stop shop workplace Alternative Dispute Resolution service with 1-1 advice.

The employee or employer will provide information (through separate portals) in response to key questions. The information will enable a lawyer to advise the user more efficiently about their rights and obligations OR enable some users to resolve matters themselves with minimal or no lawyer input.

Accessible information will be provided about employment law with FAQs, factsheets and a glossary of legal terms to help the user answer questions and understand their legal position.

Online and offline help will be available for inputting information where users need this.

The website will include legal, practical and strategic information about how best to negotiate in a variety of situations, based on YESS’s experience over three years.

Affordable independent legal advice will be available for each party to help with negotiation and achieving resolution. Mediation will be available, usually for an affordable fee.

The website will be regularly updated following feedback and legal changes.

Increase Public Understanding

Advance High Quality Thinking

Increase Access to Employment

General Public

Implications of Brexit

Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings

Influence the Online Court

Develop Robust Evidence Base

Understand Role of Technology

Law Reform, Policy and Regulation

Communications to Disseminate Learning

Your Employment Settlement Service (YESS)

R2R : Route to Resolution

Grant: £20,000
November 9, 2016

This project is to establishment an interactive guided pathway website for employees and employers, providing a one-stop-shop workplace ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) Service (called Route to Resolution – R2R). The employee /employer will provide information (through separate portals) in response to key questions. Accessible information will be provided about employment law and definitions to help the user answer questions and understand their position.

Help will be available (if necessary) for inputting information. The details provided will enable a lawyer to advise the user more efficiently about their rights and obligations. The website will include legal, practical and strategic information about how best to negotiate in a variety of situations, based on YESS’s experience. This should enable some users to negotiate themselves with minimal or no input from a lawyer.